Yaverlandia

From Yaverland (a place on the Isle of Wight)

• Yaverland · English (place name) · Yaverland, Isle of Wight, England
• -ia · Latin · place-name suffix

Yaverlandia is named after Yaverland, a locality on the Isle of Wight, England, near where the single known specimen was found. The name is the place name with the Latin-style ending "-ia". The only species, Y. bitholus, has a name meaning "two domes". It refers to the thickened skull roof, which was originally thought to belong to a dome-headed dinosaur.

Named by

Galton

Year named

1971

Period

Early Cretaceous

Stage

Barremian

Found in

Wessex Formation, Yaverland, Isle of Wight, England, UK

It is known only from a partial skull roof. Peter Galton first described it as the earliest known pachycephalosaur. Later work doubted this, and it is now usually considered a small theropod, possibly a maniraptoran. Its exact relationships remain uncertain.